Multi-Physics CFD Simulations in Engineering

(整期优先)网络出版时间:2013-04-14
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NowadaysComputationalFluidDynamics(CFD)softwareisadoptedasadesignandanalysistoolinagreatnumberofengineeringfields.Wecansaythatsingle-physicsCFDhasbeensufficientlymaturedinthepracticalpointofview.ThemaintargetofexistingCFDsoftwareissingle-phaseflowssuchaswaterandair.However,manymulti-physicsproblemsexistinengineering.Mostofthemconsistofflowandotherphysics,andtheinteractionsbetweendifferentphysicsareveryimportant.Obviously,multi-physicsphenomenaarecriticalindevelopingmachinesandprocesses.Amulti-physicsphenomenonseemstobeverycomplex,anditissodifficulttobepredictedbyaddingotherphysicstoflowphenomenon.Therefore,multi-physicsCFDtechniquesarestillunderresearchanddevelopment.Thiswouldbecausedfromthefactsthatprocessingspeedofcurrentcomputersisnotfastenoughforconductingamulti-physicssimulation,andfurthermorephysicalmodelsexceptforflowphysicshavenotbeensuitablyestablished.Therefore,innearfuture,wehavetodevelopvariousphysicalmodelsandefficientCFDtechniques,inordertosuccessmulti-physicssimulationsinengineering.Inthepresentpaper,Iwilldescribethepresentstatesofmulti-physicsCFDsimulations,andthenshowsomenumericalresultssuchasiceaccretionandelectro-chemicalmachiningprocessofathree-dimensionalcompressorbladewhichwereobtainedinmylaboratory.Multi-physicsCFDsimulationswouldbeakeytechnologyinnearfuture.